On Whiteness and in-betweenness: Reflections of highly skilled Brazilian immigrants in France

Maria Carolina Zanette, Lorena Bezerra de Souza Matos () and Jessica Sasso Lopes ()
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Maria Carolina Zanette: NEOMA - Neoma Business School
Lorena Bezerra de Souza Matos: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel
Jessica Sasso Lopes: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: This study examines the experiences and positionalities of three highly skilled Brazilian women in France, who underwent a process of being seen as the Other during immigration, a circumstance, as we understood, of Situated Whiteness. Using intimate and introspective data, we discuss how we become the Other and how our experiences involve attachment to previous symbolic capital to feel less foreign, resulting in a state of in-betweenness. The latter encompasses different dimensions of Otherness and oscillations in one's symbolic capital that balance foreignness and belonging.

Date: 2024-07-04
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Published in 40th EGOS Colloquium, Jul 2024, Milan (Italie), Italy

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